After leaving Venice with a prize, director Bui Thac Chuyen and actress Do Hai Yen are now in Canada to attend the International Toronto Film Festival.

The first screening of Chuyen’s Choi Voi, or Adrift, was organised at the AMC Theatre, Toronto on September 15.

According to Hai Yen, the show attracted many people and the film crew met with the audience after the show.

“We are surprised that Canadian audiences are very interested in our movie,” said actress Hai Hien. “They said that they liked the movie very much. They saw themselves in the film.”

Bui Thac Chuyen and Hai Yen in an interview with a Canadian TV channel.

Yen said that Canadian people paid attention to the story in the film, the thought of the director about details in the movie. “They were also interested in the downpours and the historical flood in Hanoi last year, which are used in the movie,” she said.

Director Chuyen and actress Hai Yen were interviewed by international and local TV channels on September 15.

According to Hai Yen, the Toronto Film Festival is organised professionally with a huge number of guests. All the best movies in the world go to Toronto, including Lebanon by Samuel Maoz, which won the most important award at the recent Venice Film Festival.

VietNamNet/Dan Tri